Forthcoming and Working Papers
Steven Brint, "How They Did It: The University of California's Turn to Social Justice." Forthcoming, Quillette.
Organizational Change in American
Colleges and
Universities
Steven Brint. 2021. "U.S. Universities Under the Microscope." Contexts 21 (1): 31-39.
Steven Brint, "An Organizational
Sociologist Looks at the Future of U.S.
Universities." Forthcoming
in Contexts.
Michaela Curran, Quinn Bloom, and Steven
Brint. 2020. "Does Cluster Hiring Increase Faculty
Output, Collaborations, and Impact?" Results from a
National Study of Research Universities."
Minerva. DOI: 10.1027/s11204-020-09408-3.
Quinn Bloom, Michaela Curran, and Steven
Brint. "Cluster Hiring in
American Research Universities: More Straw than
Bricks?" Sociology of Education (in
press).
Steven Brint and Cynthia E. Carr. 2017.
"Scientific Research
Productivity in U.S. Research Universities: Increasing
Concentration, Continuing
Diffusion, or Stable
Inequality?" Minerva DOI:
10.1007/s11024-017-9330-4.
Apkarian, Jacob, Kerry
Mulligan, Matthew B. Rotondi,
and Steven Brint. 2013. "Who Governs? Academic
Governance in U.S. Four-Year
Colleges and Universities,, 2000-2012."
Tertiary Education and Management
20: 151-164.
Brint,
Steven. 2013.
"A Priori and Empirical Approaches to the
Classification of Higher Education
Institutions: The United States Case."
Pensamiento Educationes 50:
96-114.
Brint, Steven,
Kristopher Proctor, Kerry
Mulligan, Matthew B. Rotondi, and Robert A. Hanneman.
2012. "Declining Academic
Fields in U.S. Four-Year Colleges and Universities,
1970-2006." The Journal of
Higher Education 83:: 582-613.
Brint, Steven,
Kristopher Proctor,
Robert A. Hanneman, Kerry Mulligan, Matthew B. Rotondi,
Scott P. Murphy. 2011.
“Who Are the Early Adopters of New Academic
Fields? Comparing Four Perspectives on
the Institutionalization of Degree Granting Programs in
US Four-Year Colleges and
Universities, 1970–2005.” Higher
Education 61: 563-585.
Brint, Steven,
Kristopher Proctor, Scott
Patrick Murphy, Lori Turk-Bicakci, and Robert A.
Hanneman. 2009. "General Education
Models: Continuity and Change in the U.S. Undergraduate
Curriculum, 1975-2000. "
The Journal of Higher Education 80:
605-642.
Brint, Steven, Lori
Turk-Bicakci, Kristopher
Proctor, and Scott Patrick Murphy. 2008.
"Expanding the Social Frame of
Knowledge: The Growth and Distribution of
Interdisciplinary, Degree-granting Programs in
American Colleges and Universities, 1975-2000."
Review of Higher Eduction
32: 155-183.
Brint, Steven, Mark
Riddle, and Robert A.
Hanneman. 2006. "Reference Sets, Identities, and
Aspirations in a Complex
Organizational Field: The Case of American Four-Year
Colleges and Universities."
Sociology of Education 79: 229-252.
Brint, Steven. 2005.
"Creating the Future: The
'New Directions' in American Research
Universities." Minerva 43:
23-50.
Brint, Steven. 2002.
"Data on Higher Education
in the United States: Are the Existing Resources
Adequate?" American Behavioral
Scientist 45: 1493-1522.
Brint, Steven. 2002.
"The Rise of the Practical
Arts." Pp. 61-89 in Steven Brint (ed.), The
Future of the City of Intellect:
The Changing American University. Stanford,
CA: Stanford University Press.
Brint, Steven. 2000.
"Higher Education."
Pp. 1178-1186 in Edgar F. Borgatta and Rhonda J.V.
Montgomery (eds.) Encyclopedia of
Sociology. New York: Macmillan Reference
USA.
Higher Education and the Marketplace
Benjamin Fields and Steven Brint,
"The Disruption in Higher Education Enrollments,
2008-2019." The Journal of Higher Education (2022).
Brint, Steven,
Sarah R.K. Yoshikawa,
Matthew B. Rotondi, Tiffany Viggiano, and John
Maldonadot. Forthcoming. "Surviving
and Thriving: The Adaptive Responses of U.S. Four-Year
Colleges and Universities to
the Great Recession." The Journal of Higher
Education. Scheduled for
publication in 2016.
Steven Brint,
Kristopher Proctor,
Scott Patrick Murphy, and Robert A. Hanneman. 2012.
"The Market Model and the
Growth and Decline of Academic Fields in U.S. Four-Year
Colleges and Universities,
1980-2000." Sociological Forum 27:
275-299.
Brint, Steven. 2007.
"Can Public Research
Universities Compete?" Pp. 91-118 in Roger L.
Geiger, Carol L. Colbeck, Roger L.
Williams, and Christian K. Anderson (eds.), The
Future of American Public Research
Universities. Rotterdam: Sense
Publishers.
Turk-Bicakci, Lori.
2007. "The
Development of Social Movement Programs and Departments
in Higher Education:
Women’s and Ethnic Studies from 1975 to 2000"
Dissertation in Sociology.
Riverside, CA: University of California, Riverside.
Brint, Steven, Mark
Riddle, Lori Turk-Bicakci,
and Charles S. Levy. 2005. "From Liberal to
Practical Arts in American Colleges and
Universities: Organizational Analysis and Curricular
Change." The Journal of
Higher Education 76: 151-180.
Turk-Bicakci,
Lori and Steven Brint.
2005. "University-Industry Collaboration: Patterns
of Growth for Low- and
Middle-level Performers." Higher Education
49: 61-89.
Brint, Steven. 2003.
"Few Remaining Dreams:
Community Colleges Since 1985." The ANNALS of
the American Academy of Political
and Social Science 586: 16-37.
Brint, Steven, Katrina
Paxton-Jorgenson, and
Eric Vega. 2003. "University-Industry Relations in
the Market for Online Courses
and Degrees." In Research and Occasion Paper Series
-- Center for Studies in Higher
Education.
Hashem, Mazem. 2002.
"Academic Knowledge from
Elite Closure to Professional Service: The Rise of
High-growth Fields in American Higher
Education." Dissertation in Sociology. Riverside,
CA: University of California,
Riverside.
Higher Education and Inequality
Steven Brint, "The Post-Industrial
University: Then and Now." 2021. In Paul Starr and
Julian E. Zelizer (eds.) Defining the Age:
Daniel Bell, His Time and Ours. New
York: Columbia University Press.
Steven Brint, "The Cost Problem in
American Higher Education - and a Comparison of
Remedies." Forthcoming in the European
Journal of Education.
Steven Brint, Komi T. German, Kayleigh
Anderson-Natale, Zeinab F. Shuker, and Suki Wang.
2020. "Where Ivy Matters: The Educational
Backgrounds of U.S. Cultural
Elites." Sociology of
Education 93: 153-72.
Steven Brint, "Can We Fix the
College Inequality Problem?" American
Prospect (Dec. 2019).
Brint,
Steven
and Sarah R.K. Yoshikawa. "The Educational
Backgrounds of American Leaders:
Status Reproduction, Open Elite, or Sectoral
Variation?" Social Forces.
Brint, Steven. 2015 (Sept.
4).. "Merit
Square-Off." The Los Angeles Review of
Books.
Brint, Steven. 2012 (July
29). "Beyond the Ivy
Islands." The Los Angeles Review of
Books.
Brint, Steven. 2011 (Nov.
15). "The Educational
Lottery." The Los Angeles Review of
Books.
Brint, Steven. 2008.
"Remarks on Paul Attewell
and David E. Lavin, Passing the Torch: Does Higher
Education for the Disadvantaged Pay
Off Across the Generations." Presented at the
American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting. Boston, MA (August).
Brint, Steven and
Mathew Baron Rotondi.
2008. "Student Debt, the College Experience, and
Transitions to Adulthood."
Paper presented at the American Sociological Association
Annual Meeting. Boston,
MA (August)..
Higher Education Effectiveness
Steven Brint and Komi Frey, "Is the
University of California Drifting Toward Conformism? The
Challenges of Representation and the Climate for
Academic Freedom." Forthcoming, UC Berkeley Center for
Studies in Higher Education, Research and Occasional
Papers Series.
Brint,
Steven and Charles T. Clotfelter. "Higher Education
Effectiveness: An
Introduction." In Steven Brint and Charles T.
Clotfelter (eds.) Higher
Education Effectiveness. New York: Russell
Sage Foundation Press. 2016.
Brint,
Steven. 2014.
"What Colleges and Universites Can Do to Improve
Outcomes for Low-Income
Students." Presentation at the University of
Toronto (April).
Brint, Steven. 2007.
"Public Views of Higher
Education." Paper presented at the Institute for
Governmental Studies,
UC-Berkeley (January).
Reforming Undergraduate Education
Steven Brint, "Raising Graduation
Rates While Maintaining Equity in Racial-Ethnic and
Socioeconomic Results: The Riverside Recipe." 2021.
Center for Studies in Higher Education (UC Berkeley)
Research and Occasional Papers series.
Ronald Kwon, Steven Brint, Allison M.
Cantwell, and Kevin D.
Curwin. Forthcoming. "Co-Curricular Learning
in Research Universities:
Results from the SERU Survey" Journal of
Student Affairs Research and
Practice.
Brint, Steven.
2015. "Research
University SPACES: The Multiple Purposes of an
Undergraduate Education." Center for
Studies in Higher Education, Research and Occasional
Papers 9.16.
Brint,
Steven. 2014.
"Co-Curricular Learning and the Physical
Campus." Text of remarks at the first
Stanford-Berkeley Summit on Online Higher Eduction.
Berkeley, CA (March)
Brint, Steven and Allison
M. Cantwell. 2012.
"Conceptualizing, Measuring and Analyzing the
Characteristics of Academically
Disengaged Students: Results from UCUES 2010."
The Journal of College Student
Development 55: 808-823.
Brint, Steven. 2011.
"Undergraduate Student
Orientations in the United States: Academically Adrift?
Bildung and Erziehung
65: 195-206.
Brint, Steven, Allison
M. Cantwell and Preeta
Saxena. 2012. “Disciplinary Categories, Majors,
and Undergraduate Academic
Experiences: Rethinking Bok’s
‘Underachieving Colleges’ Thesis.”
Research in Higher Education 53: 1-25.
Brint, Steven. 2011.
"Focus on the Classroom:
Movements to Reform College Teaching and Learning,
1980-2008." Pp. 44-91 in Joseph
C. Hermanowicz (ed.) The American Academic
Profession: Transofrmation in
Contemporary Higher Education. Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press.
Brint, Steven, and
Allison M. Cantwell.
2010. "Time Use and Academic Outcomes."
Teachers College Record 112:
2441-2470.
Brint, Steven. 2008. "The
Spellings Commission
and the Case for Professionalizing College Teaching
" Academe 94
(May-June): 21-24.
Brint, Steven, Allison
M. Cantwell, and Robert
A. Hanneman. 2008. "The Two Cultures of
Undergraduate Academic Engagement."
Research in Higher Education 49: 383-402.
Universities, the Professional Middle Class, and the Public
Interest
Steven Brint, "If Trump Wins..." Chronicle of Higher Education Review (March 2024).
Steven Brint, Megan Webb, and Benjamin Fields. 2024. 'An Uneasy Peace: The Views of STEM faculty on Diversity, Anti-racism, and Free Expression." Minerva.
Steven Brint, "The Political Machinery Behind the Right's Attack on Academic Freedom." Chronicle of Higher Education Review (November 2023).
Steven Brint and Ali O. Ilhan. 2022. "Conceptions of Professionalism in U.S. Research Universities: Evidence from the gradSERU Survey. Minerva 60: 535-65.
Steven Brint, Michaela Curran, and
Matthew C. Mahutga, "Are Professionals and Managers
More Left than Blue-Collar Workers: An Analysis of the
General Social Survey, 1974-2018."
Forthcoming in Socius.
Steven Brint and Sarah R.K. Yoshikawa.
2017. "The Educational Backgrounds of American
Business and Government Leaders: Status Reproduction,
Open Elite, or Sector Variation?" Social Forces
96: 561-90.
"Universities and the Institutional
Geography of Knowledge
Exchange." 2017. In Jal Mehta and Scott Davies
(ed.) Education in a New Society,
pp. 115-143. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press.
Steven Brint, Komi T.
German, Kayleigh Anderson-Natale, Zeinab F. Shuker, and
Suki Wang. Forthcoming.
"Where Ivy Matters: The Educational Backgrounds of
U.S. Cultural Elites."
Steven Brint and Sarah R.K. Yoshikawa.
2017. "The Educational
Backgrounds of American Business and Government Leaders:
Inter-Industry Variation in
Recruitment from Elite Colleges and
Universities." Social
Forces 96: 561-90.
Brint,
Steven. 2017. "New
Concepts, Expanding Audiences: What Highly-Cited
Articles and Books Can Tell Us about
the Future of Scholarly Knowledge in the Social
Sciences." Social Research
84: 637-68.
"New
Concepts, Expanding Audiences:
What Highly Cited Articles and Books Tells Us about the
Future of Scholarly Knowledge in
the Social Sciences." 2016. Social
Research 84: 637-68.
Brint,
Steven. 2014. "Professional Responsibility in an
Age of Experts and Large
Organizations." In Douglas A. Mitchell and Robert
K. Ream (eds.) Professional
Responsibility, pp. 89-107. London:
Springer.
Brint, Steven and
Kristopher Proctor.
2011. "Middle-Class Respectability in the 21st
Century: Work and Lifesytle in the
Professional-Managerial Stratum."Pp. 462-490 in
Joshua J. Yates and James Davison
Hunter (eds.). Thrift and Thriving in America:
Capitalism and Moral Order from the
Puritans to the Present. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Brint, Steven and
Sue Teele. 2008.
“Professionalism Under Siege: Teachers’
Views of the No Child Left Behind
Act”. Pp. 131-52 in Alan R. Sadovnik, George H.
Bohrnstedt, Jennifer O’Day,
and Katherine M. Borman (eds.). Federal Legislation,
No Child Left Behind, and the
Reduction of the Achievement Gap: Sociological
Perspectives on Federal Education
Policy. New York: Routledge.
Brint, Steven. 2006.
"Saving the ‘Soul of
Professionalism’: Freidson's Institutional Ethics
and the Defense of Professional
Autonomy." Knowledge, Work & Society
4: 101-129.
Brint, Steven. 2001.
"Professionals and the
'Knowledge Economy': Rethinking the Theory of
Post-Industrial Society." Current
Sociology 49: 101-132.
Brint, Steven
and Charles S. Levy.
1999. "Professions and Civic Engagement: Trends in
Rhetoric and Organization,
1875-1995." Pp. 163-210 in Theda Skocpol
and Morris Fiorina (eds.)
Civic Engagement in American Democracy.
Washington, DC: Brookings
Institution Press.
On Sociology and the Sociology of Education
Brint,
Steven. 2016. "Thinking about Schools and
Universities as Institutions." In
Alan R. Sadovnik (ed.) Sociologists of
Education. A volume in Leaders in
Educational Thought. Leonard Waks, general
editor. Rotterdam: Sense
Publishers.
Brint,
Steven. 2014. "Let's
Raise the Bar on the Preparation of
Teachers." Sociology of Education
Newsletter.
Brint, Steven. 2013.
"The 'Collective Mind' at
Work: A Decade in the Life of U.S. Sociology of
Education." Sociology of
Education 86: 273-279.
Commentary by Bills,
David B.; Warren, John R.;
Binder, Amy J.; Park, Hyunjoon; Bills, David B.,
Stefanie DeLuca, and Stephen L. Morgan.
“Symposium on ‘The Collective Mind at
Work.’” Sociology of
Education 86: 272-286.
Brint, Steven. 2013.
"The Light Bulb
Test." Sociology of Education 86:
289-293.
Brint, Steven. 2006.
"Guide for the Perplexed:
On Michael Burawoy's ‘Public
Sociology’." The American
Sociologist 36: 46-65.
Miscellaneous
Brint, Steven. 2013.
“Interview with Steven
Brint.” by Christopher Sanchez for Phi Beta
Kappa's The Key Reporter.
Brint,
Steven, John
Aubrey Douglass, Gregg Thomson, and Steve Chatman. 2010.
Engaged Learning in a
Public University: Trends in the Undergraduate
Experience, Report on the Results of
the 2008 University of California Undergraduate
Experience Survey. Berkeley:
Center for Studies in Higher Education.
Brint,
Steven, Steve
Chatman, John Aubrey Douglass, Richard Flacks, and Gregg
Thomson. 2007. A New
Generation: General Report of the University of
California Undergraduate Experience
Survey 2006. Berkeley: Center for Studies
in Higher Education.
